Gabby, Arjun and Luke's Surrealism Project. Mr.Read's 4th Hour. 2013.

1. Surrealism
Gabby LeBlanc
Luke Hazen
Arjun Chadha

2. What is Surrealism?
• A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art
and literature that sought to release the
creative potential of the unconscious mind.

3. Intro to Surrealism
• 1920’s-1930’s after WWI.
• Surrealism developed out of the avant-garde
Dada movement.
• Dada was more violent and less artistically
based compared to Surrealism.
• It began in Paris in 1924 with Andre Breton’s
Surrealist Manifesto.

4. Andre Breton
• 1896-1966
• He was a Dadaist and a
Communist.
• Founding father and
leader of the Surrealist
movement.
• “Psychic automatism in
its pure state, by which
one expresses… the
actual functioning of
thought.”

5. Sigmund Freud
• Freud has many theories
on free association,
dream analysis, and the
unconscious.
• Psychoanalytic
interpretation; used to
illuminate unconscious
mind.

6. Intro to Surrealism
• Let go of traditional ways of painting.
• Used drugs, alcohol, hypnotism, and
hallucinations to provoke the subconscious.
• A combination of dreams and reality.
• Investigated the mind and new areas of art.

7. Automatists
• The way in which the
images of the
subconscious reached
the conscious.
• Focused on feeling.
• Did not believe in
meaning.
Andre Masson
Automatic Drawing
1924

8. Veristic
• Shows the dream
world.
• Deep meanings.
• Subconscious
surfaces to the
conscious mind
where it can be
deciphered. Sleep
Salvador Dali
1937

9. Max Ernst
• 1891-1976
• German-born artist who
often worked with sculpture,
painting, and collages.
• Founder of two surrealist
techniques decalcomania
and frottage.

10. Elephant
Celebus
1921

11. Loplop introduces Loplop
1930

12. Pieta or
Revolution by
Night
1923

13. La Foret
Petrifee
1929

14. Europe After the Rain
1940

15. Salvador Dali
• 1904-1989
• Born in Catalonia, Spain.
• “Hand-Painted Dream
Photographs.”
• Paranoid-Critical
method.
• Tried to decipher his
subconscoius world.

16. The Persistence of Memory
1931

17. Dream Caused
by the Flight of a
Bee around a
Pomegranate
One Second
Before
Awakening
1944

18. Daddy Long-Legs of the Evening… Hope!
1929

19. Soft
Construction
with Boiled
Beans
1936

20. Rene Magritte
• 1898-1967
• Core of the Belgian
Surrealist group
• Experienced his
mother’s suicide

21. The
Red
Model
1937

22. The False Mirror 1928

23. The Lovers 1928

24. The Treachery of Images 1929

25. The Rape
1934

26. Frida Kahlo
• 1907-1954
• Mexican painter
born in Coyocan
• Used psychological
experiences that
came from a life of
physical suffering.

27. Henry Ford Hospital 1932

28. Self Portrait
with Monkeys
1943

29. The Dream
1940

30. Wounded Deer 1946

31. Joan Miro
• 1893-1983
• Born in Barcelona
• Automatist
• Catalan Nationalist

32. The
Farm
1921-
1922

33. Maternity
1924

34. Carnival of the Harlequin
1924-1925

35. The Hunter (Catalan Landscape)
1924

36. Influences
• Surrealism taught the world to see art not
merely visually and literally; but to appreciate
it in a subconscious level as well.
• Made America the art capital.
• Resulted in Abstract Expressionism as well as
other movements.

37. Summary
• Surrealism started from the Dada movement
with Andre Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto.
• It focused on painting images from the
subconscious.
• It was influenced by Freudian Theories.
• There were two types: Veristic and Automatic.
• Lead into Abstract Expressionism and other
movements.